Motor Racing Roundup : 180,000 Watch Piquet Win in Hungary

In the first Formula One race ever held in a Soviet bloc country, Nelson Piquet of Brazil drove his Williams to victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix at Budapest.

Organizers said 206,000 tickets were sold, and a record 180,000 showed up in scorching 95-degree heat.

In winning his second successive Formula One race, Piquet led compatriot Aryton Senna, driving a Lotus, when the race was ended after the two-hour time limit was reached with 75 1/2 of the scheduled 77 laps completed on the new 2.49-miles Hungaroring track.

Piquet finished in 2 hours 34.50 seconds, which was 17.67 seconds ahead of Senna. Piquet’s Williams teammate, Nigel Mansell of Britain, was third.

The victory was the fourth consecutive one for the Williams team, coming after Mansell’s consecutive victories at the French and British Grans Prix and Piquet’s at the West German Grand Prix on July 27.

Mansell retains the lead in the overall world championship standings with 55 points. Sunday’s race was the 11th of 16 in the 1986 World Drivers Championship.

Tim Richmond passed Darrell Waltrip 12 laps from the end, then pulled away to win the inaugural Budweiser-at-the-Glen NASCAR stock-car race at Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Richmond has four victories this season and four in his last eight starts, as well as three second-place finishes in that stretch.

It was the eighth career victory for the 31-year-old Richmond, who started from the pole in the 90-lap, 119-mile event.

Richmond beat Waltrip by 1.45 seconds. Current series point-leader Dale Earnhardt edged Bill Elliott for third, and Neil Bonnett finished fifth.

Richmond, who has picked up $334,480 in the last eight events, earned $50,955 Sunday. He averaged 90.464 m.p.h.

It was the first stock-car event at the historic road circuit in the rolling hills of Upstate New York since 1965. A big crowd, reminiscent of Formula One throngs here in the 1960s and ‘70s, was estimated at more than 70,000.

Fred Merkel of Huntington Beach, Calif., wrapped up the American Motorcyclist Assn. Camel Pro Series national championship with a second-place finish at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga.

Teammate Wayne Rainey of Norwalk won the race, the last in the nine-race series, by .741 seconds.

At Anderstorp, Sweden, Eddie Lawson of Ontario, Calif., rode his Yamaha to victory in the Swedish 500cc motorcycle Grand Prix, clinching the world title.

Lawson, who finished second overall last year, has an unbeatable 124 points with only the Aug. 24 San Marino race left.

In the Grand Prix of Luxembourg at Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, David Thorpe of Great Britain, riding a Honda, wrapped up his second consecutive 500cc motocross world championship by winning the first of two heats and finishing third in the second.